Previously published as Liaisons at Dusk by Benjamin Nelson.


Volume One of the Bloodseeker Chronicles, a tale of magic in Glasgow, Scotland in the aftermath of a global war stretching hundreds of years. Where humanity and its allies have lost and monsters reign supreme.


Captain, Daniel Crownsbane is bored with his life. Once given the most dangerous of missions, the half- vampire, half-human Crownsbane has filled the void in the postwar years with cheap booze, acrid cigarettes and loose women, almost always in that order. One fateful day at the Glasgow tennis courts he meets the mysterious Lydia Striker. There he is given the secret order from my government to protect her. Entranced not only by her beauty, but her strong will, he accepts the mission full heartedly.


Who is Lydia Striker and why must he protect her? Will finding the answers to these questions be the explosive catalyst that might jump start his life? Or will it prove to be his damnation?


Perhaps both will occur as Crownsbane confronts not only the threats of the present, but the ghosts of the past he long thought dead.